A House Divided

Carl Strikwerda

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.
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Carl Strikwerda is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, and the coeditor, with Camille Guerin-Gonzales, of The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy Since 1930.

Strikwerda makes his case with an impressive command of comparative European political history.....— D. G. Troyansky

One of the finest books on Belgium to appear in many years. It will be of great interest to French and German historians as well as Belgian scholars.....— Kenneth Barkin

Strikwerda's insightful analyses of Belgian society and politics transform our understandings of the social and political history of the industrial age.....— Donald Reid

Strikwerda's authoritative study of the political emergence of the working class in Belgium makes a major contribution to the history of the beginnings of mass politics in the period between about 1870 and 1914.....— Hugh Mcleod

A model of patient historical reconstruction.....— Kenneth D. McRae

A House Divided

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.

Carl Strikwerda is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, and the coeditor, with Camille Guerin-Gonzales, of The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy Since 1930.

Reviews

Reviews

Strikwerda makes his case with an impressive command of comparative European political history.....— D. G. Troyansky

One of the finest books on Belgium to appear in many years. It will be of great interest to French and German historians as well as Belgian scholars.....— Kenneth Barkin

Strikwerda's insightful analyses of Belgian society and politics transform our understandings of the social and political history of the industrial age.....— Donald Reid

Strikwerda's authoritative study of the political emergence of the working class in Belgium makes a major contribution to the history of the beginnings of mass politics in the period between about 1870 and 1914.....— Hugh Mcleod